Provides services and technical assistance for students so they benefit from research-based curricula taught in safe environments.

Produces and disseminates information to provide motivation and tools to enable individuals to make informed decisions about health issues.

Develops and implements education testing programs that benefit students, parents and public officals.

Works with the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the government's primary source for collecting and analyzing data about public education.

Helps to provide all children with access to a quality education, and empowers people, organizations, and communities to bring about social change.

Is committed to helping clients improve the effectiveness of their workforce through a wide range of management, organizational, and business improvement efforts.

Produces, maintains and disseminates systematic reviews of the effects of social and behavioral interventions.

Fiona Innes Helsel, Ph.D.

Senior Research Analyst

Fiona Innes Helsel, Ph.D., has been a Senior Research Analyst at AIR in Washington, DC for the past 3.5 years. In this time, she has served as Project Director for the Evaluation Data Coordination Project for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Dr. Innes Helsel is also the Project Director for the ACF Moving Together Project, a curriculum developed to assist ACF employees in their development of core competency skills in communication, collaboration, and cultural competence. Further, she is Project Director for a new contract with the Knight Foundation which is designed to collect updated data on numerous indicators and make it available to the public.

Dr. Innes Helsel also works on the What Works Clearinghouse, a Center conceived by the Department of Education to provide educators, policymakers, and the public with a central, independent, and trusted source of scientific evidence of what works in education. Dr. Innes Helsel further assisted in the development of a Mentoring Guide that has been distributed nation-wide to Head Start and Early Head Start programs and was also a team leader on the Voluntary National Tests Project to examine items for elements of bias and to determine their usability among children with learning disabilities and English as a second language. Dr. Innes Helsel received her Ph.D. in 1999 from the Department of Child Development and Family Studies at Purdue University.